Hey! Mario Marrufo here; your friendly neighborhood Marxist shaman. We’ll be learning all about shamanic Marxism later. For now, this is a statement for my youtube channel in preparation for going over my new book Introducing Pan-Dialectical Materialism [IPDM]. One topic the book keeps coming back to (and treats very seriously) is sexual harassment. This is because we live in what we could call a sexual harassment culture. No use denying it! “Yes! Of! Course we does!,” as Kesha says. Sexual harassment culture is an aspect of what we could (and many do) call “rape culture.” Kesha, for example, knows this very well! Knows all about it! We could say she’s an expert on it! At the end of the first chapter of IPDM (“The Metaphysical Spiral Staircase of Development”), I admit that I have, in the past, committed sexual harassment. And we then discuss what it took for me to stop doing that, and how we can combat it in the future. And while we don’t necessarily define “sexual harassment” (bit of a yawn, tbh—and, further tbh, makes it too easy for people to wriggle their way out of accountability for it), we identify a few examples of it in the book that we should all be able to agree on!
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Subtitles: Dialectical Materialism as Metaphysical and Synthetic Naturalism | Vivisection of Yaldabaoth via Dialectical Materialism | Towards a Shamanic, Alchemical, Promethean Marxism, i.e., “Marxism-Leninism-Maroofism” | Towards a Statistical (Bayesian) Metaphysics | Towards a Justice Beyond the Adversarial/Accusatory (Therefore Beyond the Satanic)
Author’s Note: What you are reading is a book! If it were printed, it would be about 900 pages (or, it’s about 270k words, about half as long as Infinite Jest)—therefore, it cannot be [fairly] regarded as a “piss take,” but rather, an “alchemical” take, where we alchemize the piss into phosphorus, so to speak. What I would ask is that you read this book as if we were both Children of Mother Earth! Because that’s what we are! And not as if from within the prison of the literal. You’ll see what I mean by that.
When “cf.” is used in this book, it’s meant to encourage the seeking of correspondence rather than to encourage comparison.
Ok. Fine. My pronouns are they/them, because I’m nonbinary, and I contain multitudes.
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0. This will be the first in a series of essays where I try to break open the windows of the “mind” and shed some disinfecting sunlight on the subconscious
Ok, we’ll get to Plato’s Cave Allegory and the “trans-platonic caves,” but first we have to talk about Reality itself (hopefully you’ve brushed up on your Beaudrillard! :P). But even before we talk about Reality, we have to talk about Nature. But even before THAT, I have to do my silly little TBKTS self-therapy session (your patience is appreciated) where I have to recognize that my inner Continental Idealist Locked in the Basement is “pounding on my floor,” reminding me to discourage the reader, if need be, from any curiosity about my metaphysics. I never start from metaphysics. I always start from dialectics. And Dialectical Materialism is what lets me shout unabashedly from the rooftops that my metaphysics is simply “the friends I made along the way!” and “Thou shalt know my dialectical ‘tree’ by its metaphysical ‘fruits’!” Also, my Inner Marxist-Leninist Catgirl is telling me to remind the reader not to start accusing me of “eclecticism” (a term from “Leninese”) just because you don’t see all the components of my worldview (and how they connect to each other systematically) yet! Finally, yes, my Inner Liberal Behind the Drywall and Between the Studs Where Liberals Belong is telling me through muffled “voice” that you, dear reader, (in addition to being turned off by this opening “self-therapy session” itself, and by my general “impoliteness,” among other things :P) will be turned off by some of the names of some of the people and concepts I’ll be dropping/have already dropped1, even though by all standards, I should have referenced and even based load-bearing portions of this essay on the works of enough conventional thinkers to satisfy the delicate sensibilities of any normie libcuck academic(!), but my response is simply to remind the Inner Liberal that they’re just having a fear/trauma response from over a century of anti-communist propaganda, and if they JUST READ THE GODDAMN ESSAY, they could at least see where I’m coming from, which would, not so ironically, allow them to argue against me more effectively, IF THAT’S SOMETHING THEY ACTUALLY GIVE A FUCK ABOUT AND ARE NOT JUST BULLSHITTING ME! Also, yes, I’ve read back through this essay a few times and I can see how it could be difficult to follow, including the material in the current paragraph. Don’t worry about that. It’s just an early draft. I have many more in my future, I’m afraid. But surely it’ll be easier to follow than the book of Ezekiel! (I’m not calling you surely!)
I. Nature is not “reality”
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